{"product_id":"9780571262618","title":"Ian Hamilton Collected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eA professional man of letters - critic, editor, biographer - though never a professional poet, Ian Hamilton (1938-2001) referred to his poems as 'miraculous lyrical arrivals', and he bided their time with exemplary patience and humility. His widely praised first collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Visit\u003c\/i\u003e, published by Faber in 1970, was incorporated into \u003ci\u003eFifty Poems \u003c\/i\u003ein 1988, itself expanded to \u003ci\u003eSixty Poems\u003c\/i\u003e in 1998. In a preface to the former collection, he wrote: 'Fifty poems in twenty-five years: not much to show for half a lifetime, you might think. And in certain moods, I would agree.' Readers of Hamilton's condensed and immaculate oeuvre have felt otherwise: the poems of his youth and middle years (there was to be no opportunity for a late flowering) acquired talismanic significance for his contemporaries, and their combination of terseness and emotional intensity continues to set an example to younger poets. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdited by Alan Jenkins, this authoritative \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e contains all of the poetry that Ian Hamilton chose to publish, together with a small number of uncollected and unpublished poems; it also supplies an illuminating introduction, and succinctly helpful apparatus. The result is an edition whose thoroughness and tact are themselves a moving tribute, restoring to view one of the most disinctive bodies of work in twentieth-century English poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156573962480,"sku":"9780571262618","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571262618_p0.jpg?v=1769896657","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571262618","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}